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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 71: parents through Line 101: No free man needs a God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Shade's parents when he was a boy?
(a) They died.
(b) They put him up for adoption.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They divorced/seperated.

2. What did Charles Kinbote do with the cat?
(a) He gave it to John Shade as a birthday gift.
(b) He gave it to the maid.
(c) He wrote a poem about it.
(d) He accidentally poisoned it.

3. Where do the Shade's travel to take their minds off their daughter's death?
(a) Zembla.
(b) France.
(c) New Wye.
(d) Italy.

4. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?
(a) The possibility of an afterlife.
(b) Reincarnation vs. heaven and hell.
(c) The Zemblan Kings and their Gods.
(d) The depths of human consciousness.

5. Which of the following has Shade renounced?
(a) His country.
(b) His friends.
(c) His family.
(d) His religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the assassin's real name?

2. Of the following, what do King Charles and John Shade have in common?

3. Who is King Alfin the Vague's son?

4. Which Pope is mentioned in the commentary to Line 85?

5. Who sets up John Shade's daughter on a blind date?

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